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Gheerkin de Hondt

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Gheerkin de Hondt (also Gheerken, Gheraert, Gerit, Gerrit, Gheerart, Gerryt de Hont) was a Dutch singer, choirmaster, and composer of polyphonic songs. Despite the enormous popularity of his songs, very little biographical information survives. He was probably born c. 1495, the son of a Jacob de Hondt; if this was the Jacob who was guardian of the choirboys in Bruges in the 1530s, this may imply he was a native of Bruges. He was appointed choirmaster in Delft’s Nieuwe Kerk in mid-1521 but left at the end of 1523; he was re-appointed to the post in 1530. He left Delft 18 months later to take up the equivalent position at the church of Sint-Jacob in Bruges, where he remained until 1539. In December 1539 he became choirmaster of the Marian brotherhood in ’s-Hertogenbosch, where he remained until he left in 1547, apparently dismissed for failing to take adequate care of the choirboys. It appears he went to Friesland, but he disappears from the historical record at this point - although Diehl asserts that there is a record of his death in the Bruges archives in 1562. Of his compositions 5 mass settings, 4 motets and 9 songs survive, most of them preserved in the songbook of Zeghere van

Ghenadie Ciobanu

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Ghenadie Ciobanu (born 6 April 1957) is a Moldovan composer and politician. He served as the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Moldova from 1997 to 2001 and later as a deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova in the Liberal Democratic Party faction from 2010 to 2014. Ciobanu has composed symphonies, works for chamber ensembles (instrumental), choral compositions, as well as music for theatre and film. Biography Ghenadie Ciobanu was born on 6 April 1957 in Brătușeni, Edineț, Moldavian SSR. He graduated from the “Gnesin” Musical-Pedagogical Institute in Moscow (now the Gnessin State Musical College), faculty of piano (1982), and later from the “Gavriil Muzicescu” Conservatory in Chișinău, Department of Composition (1986). He is the author of more than one hundred musical works across various genres, including opera, musical theatre, symphonic music, vocal-symphonic works, choral compositions, chamber music, and music for theatre and film. His works have been performed in numerous recitals and concerts in the Republic of Moldova, Romania, France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Israel, Denmark, Poland, Russia, Estonia, Ukraine, the United States, China, Italy, Bulgaria, Austri

Gheorghi Arnaoudov

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Gheorghi Arnaoudov (, ; born 18 March 1957) is a Bulgarian composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, film, vocal, and piano music. His work has roots in minimal music. Life Gheorghi Arnaoudov was born on 18 March 1957 in Sofia, and graduated in composition with Alexander Tanev and contemporary music with Bojidar Spassov from the State Academy of Music Pancho Vladigerov. At the same time, he attended summer courses working with Brian Ferneyhough and Ton de Leeuw. His artistic career started in the early 1980s. At the same time, he did research work in the fields of electronic music, music theory and musique concrète, as well as ancient far-Eastern and ancient Greek music. He has won many international and national awards, including the Grand Prix of the European Broadcasting Union (1985), the Golden Harp Prize from Jeunesses Musicales (1985), the Special Prize of the Union of Bulgarian Composers (1986), and the Carl Maria von Weber International Prize for Music (1989). He is the author of scientific and theoretical articles in music, as well as of reviews in musical and scientific periodicals, mainly in the spheres of the aesthetics of modernism and postmodernism, communications in th

Gherardello da Firenze

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Gherardello da Firenze (also Niccolò di Francesco or Ghirardellus de Florentia) ( 1320–1325 – 1362 or 1363) was an Italian composer of the Trecento. He was one of the first composers of the period sometimes known as the Italian ars nova. Life Gherardello was a member of a musical family, and both his brother Jacopo and his son Giovanni were also composers; however, none of their music survives. He was probably born in or near Florence, and spent most of his life there. In 1343 he appears in the records of the cathedral of Florence, Santa Reparata (this was before the building of the main cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore) as a clerk. Later he became a priest, and then served as chaplain of Santa Reparata from 1345 until 1351—during the years that the Black Death ravaged the city. Probably around 1351 he joined the order of the Vallombrosa, a Benedictine order with an abbey about 30 km from Florence. Details of the last years of his life are lacking, and his death date is inferred from a sonnet written in 1362 or 1363, probably by Simone Peruzzi, mourning his death, which occurred at Florence. Music Although Gherardello was renowned during his time for his sacred music, little of it

Ghiselin Danckerts

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Ghiselin Danckerts (c. 1510 – late September 1567) was a Dutch composer, singer, and music theorist of the Renaissance. He was principally active in Rome, in the service of the Papal Chapel, and was one of the judges at the famous debate between Nicola Vicentino and Vicente Lusitano in 1551. Life He was born in Tholen, in Zeeland, but nothing is known of his early life. Like many of his contemporaries from the Low Countries, he may have received his early training in his homeland, going to Italy as a young adult. In his manuscript treatise Sopra una differentia musicale sententiata he asserts that he was employed by Pierluigi Carafa, member of an aristocratic family in Naples. He was admitted as a singer at the Papal Chapel 21 March 1538, a position he retained, seemingly without break, until 1565. In August 1565 he was forced to retire from the papal chapel as part of a reorganization and reduction in size which followed from the reforms of the Council of Trent. The entry in the chapel records for his dismissal includes the notice: “he is without voice, he is given to women, is excessively rich, and is useless because of illness.” He was granted a monthly pension of six ducats and